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At 09:44 AM 4/12/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>>We, on the farm, used to have breakfast, lunch (called dinner!) and high 
>>tea about 6.00 pm. We did not have dinner. It was, apparently, much more 
>>healthy but most people eat their main meal in the evening nowadays.

It used to be the same in the rural South.  The biggest meal of the day was 
dinner - at noon.  Then everybody went back out and worked on the farm all 
day.  Supper was either leftovers (that had been sitting on the table 
covered with cloth to keep off the flies) or, if there were no leftovers, a 
glass of buttermilk with cornbread crumbled in it.  Now people are not at 
home in the middle of the day so the big meal has migrated to supper - not 
nearly as healthy to eat and go to bed.  I've always heard you should eat 
breakfast like a king (or queen), lunch like a prince, and supper like a 
pauper.

Tina


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